Nov 6, 2015 • 10pm NS curator Jeffrey Zeigler (cellist) presents jazz trumpeter John Korsrud and the Eco-Music Big Band, led by Marie Incontrera. The 18-piece Eco-Music Big Band plays the music of Canadian new music/ jazz composer John Korsrud.

Can This Start-up With Cellos Shake Up Classical Music’s Business-As-Usual?by Justin Davidson

National Sawdust, the five-years-in-the-making Williamsburg music venue that aims to support emerging artists, will open Oct. 1 with a series of performances that get louder and louder, the venue’s director said.

Can This Start-up With Cellos Shake Up Classical Music’s Business-As-Usual?by Justin Davidson

On a perfect summer night in 2012, the keening of a clarinet ricocheted off the century-old walls of a roofless sawdust factory and plumed out into the streets of Williamsburg. It was the first audible intimation of an unlikely dream: a tiny high-tech clubhouse where composers, musical adventurers, and classical-music performers could make as much noise as they wanted 24 hours a day.

Music for Writers: Something of Jeffrey Zeigler's Life by Porter Anderson

“When it was announced that I was leaving Kronos,” says cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, “half the people I spoke to said, ‘Wow, you’re really brave.’ And the other half said, ‘Wow, you’re really crazy.'” We now know: the first half was right. And Zeigler now hands us one of the most intelligently varied, coolly parsed selections this season of music for writerly consideration.

Two weeks ago, the new music world received the news that there would be a new face with the Kronos Quartet. Cellist Jeffrey Zeigler had decided to move on from the group and come back to New York City, while Kronos announced the addition of 28-year-old Sunny Jungin Yang to fill the cello position beginning in May.

Something of Life is the debut solo album of cellist, Jeffrey Zeigler on Innova Records. After eight seasons as a member of the Kronos Quartet, Zeigler is forging a new path as a soloist and collaborative artist moving fluidly across style and genre. His recent collaborations include such artists as Andy Akiho, Laurie Anderson, Nora Chipaumire, Hauschka, Vijay Iyer, David Krakauer, the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and Kimmo Pohjonen and he has given the world premiers of works written for him by Mohammed Fairouz, Jesse Jones, John King, Glenn Kotche, Gity Razaz and John Zorn.